BEFORE THE CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
450 N Street, Room 121
Sacramento, California
REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT
OCTOBER 6, 2009
PROPERTY TAX COMMITTEE
Reported by: Beverly D. Toms
No. CSR 1662
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4 For the Committee Michelle Steel
Chair
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Jerome E. Horton
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7 Bill Leonard
Member
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Betty T. Yee
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10 Marcy Jo Mandel
Appearing for John
11 Chiang, State Controller
(per Government Code
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13 Diane Olson
Chief, Board
14 Proceedings Division
15 Board of Equalization
Staff: Dean Kinnee
16 Property and Special Taxes
Department
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Ladeena Ford
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4 Sacramento, California
5 October 6, 2009
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7 MS. YEE: Good morning. We will call today's
8 Board of Equalization meeting to order. And before we
9 get started, I would like to welcome our newest member
10 to the Board, the Honorable Jerome Horton.
11 And please give him a round of applause. He's
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14 MS. YEE: He's going to be a terrific addition
15 to this Board and I think what I want to say to you,
16 Jerome, is welcome home to the Board of Equalization.
17 We also -- just let me announce to the staff
18 your colleagues and I have decided to host a reception
19 for you at the noontime hour in the Dronenburg room, and
20 we invite the staff to come down and meet Mr. Horton.
21 So, welcome.
22 MR. HORTON: Thank you.
23 MS. YEE: Ms. Olson, what do we have on tap?
24 MS. OLSON: Good morning, Madam Chair and
25 Members. The first item on today's agenda is Property
26 Tax Committee. Ms. Steel.
27 MS. STEEL: I call the Property Tax Committee
28 to order and we have only one item in our committee and
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1 Dean Kinnee will providing us with a report.
2 MR. KINNEE: Good morning, Board Members. Dean
3 Kinnee with Property and Special Taxes Department.
4 Also with me here today is Ms. Ladeena Ford of our
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6 Today we're asking the committee to recommend
7 to the Board offer to publish the proposed rules to
8 Property Tax -- Property Tax rules 191 -- I'm sorry,
9 192, 193 and 371. Staff proposed changes to these rules
10 as a result of Assembly Bill 550, Chapter 297, Statutes
11 of 2008, that made changes to Section 469 of the Revenue
12 and Taxation Code dealing with mandatory audits for
13 Assessor staff.
14 Staff disseminated to interested parties the
15 proposed changes, received only very minor comments
16 back. We've incorporated all those changes into the
17 rules before the Board that are attached to the issue
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19 At this time we're not aware of any comments.
20 We're available to answer any questions staff -- the
21 Board may have of staff and as I'm sure the Board knows,
22 this just commences the official rulemaking process. If
23 the Board authorizes publication of this it would start
24 the rulemaking process. The rules would go out to
25 interested parties. They have 45 days to get comments
26 back and it would come back before the Board.
27 MS. YEE: Okay.
28 MS. STEEL: Thank you very much.
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2 MR. LEONARD: Move adoption and publication.
3 MS. YEE: I'll second.
4 MR. HORTON: Second.
5 MS. STEEL: Wow. This is really good and fast.
6 Actually, it's not really perfect because I want to get
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8 MR. HORTON: In that case I withdraw my second.
9 MS. STEEL: I accept yours, yeah. But with
10 Member Leonard making motion and Member Horton, thank
11 you very much for making the second, this motion has
12 been adopted and the motion passes.
13 And we conclude this Property Tax Committee at
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1 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE.
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7 I, BEVERLY D. TOMS, Hearing Reporter for the
8 California State Board of Equalization certify that on
9 October 6, 2009 I recorded verbatim, in shorthand, to
10 the best of my ability, the proceedings in the
11 above-entitled hearing; that I transcribed the shorthand
12 writing into typewriting; and that the preceding 5 pages
13 constitute a complete and accurate transcription of the
14 shorthand writing.
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16 Dated: November 3, 2009.
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22 BEVERLY D. TOMS
23 Hearing Reporter
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